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While I appreciate that option, it's not going to be the perfect grilled cheese I make at home! 🙂 Yes, even a grilled cheese can be the stuff of "Foodies worthy" 2 slices hearth-baked (crusty) sourdough bread cut from a 2-lb loaf, about ¾-inch thick per piece ⅓ cup melted ghee or melted unsalted clarified butter 3 to 4 thin slices (about 2 oz) aged gruyère or Comté cheese 3 to 4 thin slices (about 2 oz) medium Wisconsin yellow cheddar 2 oz bandaged sharp white cheddar grated 2 oz medium white New York cheddar, grated ½ small yellow onion, thinly shaved or sliced 1 large leek, rinsed thoroughly, cut in half lengthwise, and thinly sliced into half-moons (white and pale green parts only) 1 tsp kosher salt 1 tbsp pickled mustard seeds 1 tbsp whole-grain mustard

I'm not a non-foodies, but I like my perfect grilled cheese sammy, more than my perfect filet. Many here would scoff at a grilled cheese sandwich, but I will hold mine up to any steak, period. 🙂 I love to cook, though I will admit since I am from KC, most is centered around long smoked bbq on my Traeger. But, I l love to eat even more. Food is so subjective. When I hear comments comparing X to Golden Corral, it's humorous at best. This convo is a nobody wins banter. Those of us that are fine with the fare, are told we either haven't cruised lately, or we just aren't foodies. Those that aren't fine with something, are labeled as complainers, and told to move on if you don't like the current fare. Everyone that has upcoming sailings will be making their own decisions. I for one look forward to both my Ascent sailing in December. And my casino comped sailing on an older boat in February.

Yellow, one of the largest freight companies in the US recently declared bankruptcy. And that was just a few years after a $700M government bail out! The economy is the biggest factor. Fuel prices, Teamster unions demanding higher wages, and a lack of qualified help at the local terminals. The cost to transport a pallet has almost doubled in the last 3 years! But, paying twice the cost, delivery times have increased by over 50% across the same routes. We use R&L quite a bit, and they seem to be one of the few reliable carriers. We avoid Estes, Tforce, and Cross Country like the plague. It's a lottery ticket hoping for an on time delivery as quoted.

You hit the nail on the head "Dead Center". It's 2023, not 2003, or even 2013! Almost every business has been experiencing supply chain issues for one reason or another. I handle all the procurement for our business. We're not X in size lol, but even as a $7M a year small business, it's ridiculous what we endure from freight companies currently. I can't imagine what X goes through to keep food and supplies coming in to the ships. Freight forwarders and LTL transport companies plain don't care today! We've had pallets hit local terminals, and sit for days on end. We finally are forced to drive to the terminal, break down the pallet, and load out to multiple vehicles, just so we can have the product we paid for. Many here are living in "Their own private Idaho", and simply clueless to the current state of logistics in the business world. Just because Amazon get's you your paper towels in one day, it doesn't mean every product in the world ships and delivers next day.

I was referring to the cafe El Bachio The regular juices. I couldn't even tell you where the spa is, much less a spa cafe

Who's complaining about complainers? I find it entertaining. 🙂 but the whiners completiely ignored all the positive MDR reviews from cruisers on ships over the last six weeks. It's like they don't exist. If one says they can always find selections they enjoy, then the whiner revs up the way back machine, and we get to hear about the days when ships only had < 1k passengers Craising is a supply/demand commodity. if you don't like the current offering change it up to something else. I for one, don't take much stock in subjective reviews such as food. I am going to make that decision for me, and no one here is going to negatively influence my attitude before I even board the next cruise. I have 2 x cruises booked over the next 5 months, and looking forward to both. I work hard owning my business, so my cruises are a huge decompression for me. Cruise on and enjoy X, or don't.

Yes, all premium coffee, juice, water included

Because the whiners don't enjoy the menu, and assume no one does. Or because they don't, YOU shouldn't either. It's past ridiculous. We cruise four times a year. I am always in a better state of life on a cruise

Because, if they can't B*tch about the food, then there is nothing else to whine about, to justify not facing reality that living in an inflationary economy is more expensive!

We just booked a 7 day IV Ascent cruise on her 4th voyage (12/10/23). No AI, it was $2100 USD. I'm not a new ship cruise chaser, but my wife wanted to cruise on a new ship. I think that price point for an outside cabin is within reach of main stream America's wallet, considering the cost of other resort options these days.

I don't know. I was just thinking how much I liked breakfast for dinner when that Cracker Barrel commercial popped during the Bama game.

But we already have implied value from givens such as friendly service, meals prepped from scratch, and a clean environment

Cracker Barrel has 20 meals under $12.00 Now that's value

This thread degraded from X vs Others, to a bunch of keyboard warriors popping off at each other. One of the biggest detriments to the Internet age, everyone's either an expert, or a mouth. Back when you had to look someone in the eye when you gave the verbal smack down, it was a different world! 🙂 The entertainment value is peaking though!

We booked through a TA for the first time on an upcoming X Ascent cruise, had always booked direct prior. We received the TA's company receipt, and immediately received the official X guest copy. I did immediately log in to our X account, and did have to add the cruise to our account manually, but it added without a problem.

I come here for the entertainment factor only! 🙂 Nothing better to do than bicker backer about poor etiquette on word choice, and losing a few hundred bucks value in a $8K suite on a cruise ship. Yeesh.. I'm thankful for every morning I wake up, and the few cruises a year my wife and I are able to afford.

That's FDA language for admitting they haven't done the same research as the Brits Royal College of Physicians. I have been on the business side of this industry for 14 years. We're well versed in FDA double speak. 🙂 Remember, the FDA is the organization that rush approved Oxycontin and look where that got us. Millions of opiate addicts, many overdose deaths, and billions in taxpayer expense.

https://www.fda.gov/tobacco-products/ctp-newsroom/ctp-director-discusses-opportunities-and-considerations-addressing-misperceptions-about-relative It only took the FDA 14 years to admit vapor products are less harmful than cigarettes!

What NEW studies? The FDA finally admitted just a couple weeks ago that vaping is a 90% harm reduction compared to combustible tobacco! Just because you read it on the Internet, doesn't make it true. There is a reason the brits are so far ahead of the US in terms of reducing combustible tobacco use in the UK. I suggest you read some studies from The Royal College of Physicians. The UK is a decade ahead of the rest of the world in vapor product research. UK even allows vaping in hospitals! There is no such thing as second hand effects. The only substances exhaled are water vapor particles. And as for heavy metals, if you test a device at 10x's the temperature of it's operating limit, bad things will happen.. I digress to dropping a Ferrari engine in a Ford Focus, and attempting 200+ MPH. The CDC posted the Evali vaping scare in 2018. Turned out it was black market marijuana, and not nicotine vapor. CDC retracted, but one has to look really hard to find the truth! Media hype get's eyeballs, it doesn't mean it's the Gospel, or even anything close to accurate!

thanks for the info. Looks like my wife will need a standard visa, as she will go through customs control, and then stay over night in hotel, then transit to Dover cruise terminal.

My wife has lived in the US for 14 years, but never applied for US Citizenship. (I know 🙃)We have taken several caribbean and mexico cruises, and she just needed to bring green card/State DL/China passportShe just booked a 12 day cruise originating in London UK, ports in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Estonia, and DenmarkI am almost 99% sure I have to get her a Schengen Visa for the UK, but Carnival has no information, and conflicting information everywhere on Google.We reside in Central Florida.Help?? 🙂